Category: Birds

I have to admit I am sweating buckets at the moment. I heard from the Team Skoda today. Looks like part of the itinerary includes attending two press conferences as well. Sheesh,  I will have to pretend I am taking a class and maybe I will survive. But I am truly sweating buckets even in the…

Green Bee Eating Birds are really common in my area. So I often do not photograph them. But then this time Brat 1 kept insisting that you try and catch one in flight. I told him it usually takes a few hours to get a shot like that. But he was not to be deterred….

Dilip D is Brat 1. While he and I were walking on the Sunday afternoon, he suddenly looked over a wall and said there is a bird. So, I gave him the camera because from the road I could not see over the wall. Brat 1 has an advantage that he is around 6 feet…

These days when I see a new bird (to me) in the neighborhood I get really excited because most of the times I get to see the same birds like Jungle Babblers, Purple Sunbirds, Mynas and the like. I had to ask about this one at Indiamike. So now I know what a Black Redstart…

Chhavi and Sesha had gone to visit my sister and my niece (Brat 3) over the weekend. I decided to go for walks and see what birds I get to click. I took Brat 1 also along (Brat 2 is in Dubai on a 10 month internship) and we wandered for a few hours. In…

Birds (White Wag Tails) from my usual ATM run within the college.

Managed to click a few pictures of the Long Tailed Shrike. Saw it first time in my neighborhood. Have seen it in Bhimtal before. And then it obliged by showing a little of its wings.

The Jungle Babblers didn’t like my intrusion. They were making cute faces before they spotted me with the camera.

Yesterday late afternoon Chhavi finally decided to take a nap after jumping around for 45 minutes in the bed and telling us she is not going to sleep. As Sesha was also sleeping, I decided to go for a walk, but without the camera! Yes I do make such mistakes sometimes. And that was a…